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...taught history at schools in New York and Massachusetts, served as a principal at schools in Massachusetts and Ohio and spent four years as the superintendent of schools in Scarsdale, N.Y. before his appointment by Johnson...
During the 12 years Howe taught at GSE—1982 to 1994—he was a major proponent of expanding the definition of education as it was understood by academics...
Contact with younger people, Bernstein believes, is another key to staying youthful. He has taught film scoring at the University of Southern California, and his many proteges include two of his four children: son Peter, 51, is also a composer, and daughter Emilie, 34, has been orchestrating her father's scores for nearly a decade. Bernstein often returns the favor by showing up at clubs when Emilie performs with her alternative rock band, Eve's Garden...
...Cico, who speaks five languages, including Mandarin. Raised in Verona, she took the career route of another famous northern Italian, Marco Polo, and went to China, where she managed ventures for Italian telecoms in the 1980s and '90s, an experience that honed her negotiating skills. Says Cico: "My parents taught me that if you have integrity, you should never be afraid to speak up." --By Tim Padgett. With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo
Growing up in a big family in Las Cruces, N.M., taught her teamwork. "Six kids in a two-bathroom home," she says. "If you don't work in shifts and make trade-offs, you can't get out of the house in the morning." Her father remortgaged the house to send her to the University of Chicago. A part-time job at the university hospital began a love affair with medicine, and an IBM internship drew her to business...